| DANTON | Georges, French revolutionary executed in 1794 (6) |
| ROBESPIERRE | Maximilien de ---, French revolutionary executed in 1794 (11) |
| GUEVARA | Argentine revolutionary executed in Bolivia in 1967 (7) |
| NELSON | Horatio, British naval hero who lost sight in his right eye during the siege of Calvi in Corsica in 1794 (6) |
| DALTON | John, English chemist who described colour blindness in 1794 (6) |
| ODESSA | Ukrainian city, founded in 1794 by a decree of Catherine the Great (6) |
| COTTON | Back in 1794, Eli Whitney changed America by inventing an engine (or "gin") which could separate the fibers of this fluffy, white crop from its seeds |
| SEURAT | Georges, French pointillist painter born in 1859 (6) |
| BRAQUE | Georges ---, French artist who developed Cubism with Pablo Picasso (6) |
| USHANT | French island, scene of four naval battles between 1778 and 1794 (6) |
| GIBBON | Arboreal ape - English historian, d. 1794 (6) |
| SPEARS | 'When the stars threw down their ___' (William Blake Songs of Experience (1794) |
| LIVRE | French coin discontinued in 1794 |
| OBAN | Ferry port in the West Coast (pop about 9,000), with a distillery founded in 1794 (4) |
| HOLYTHURSDAY | Poem by William Blake, first published in Songs of Innocence and Experience in 1794 |
| THETYGER | Poem by William Blake published in 1794 (3,5) |
| YTTRIUM | Chemical element discovered by Johan Gadolin in 1794 (7) |
| CALVI | Nelson lost an eye during a siege of this Corsican seaport in 1794 |
| BIT | One eighth of a dollar, before US currency became decimal in 1794 |
| CLEMENCEAU | Georges, French Prime Minister 1917-20 (10) |
